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Re: Emacs will not execute, always reports 24.5.1 as version
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 14:02:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: Emacs will not execute, always reports 24.5.1 as version
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On 8/1/2016 1:01 PM, Brian Kuhn wrote:
Has anyone else encountered this issue running Emacs lately and found
resolution?
For me, Emacs will not start an editing session. After typing “emacs”
at the command prompt, there is a brief pause while I remain at the
bash shell, and Instead I remain in the bash shell, and after you see
a pause after typing “emacs” at the command prompt, and then you see a
new command prompt.
Try 'emacs -Q' to rule out a problem in your emacs initialization files.
Observation: Emacs reports version 24.5.1 from the command line no
matter which version was installed. For example, if I install 24.5-2,
$emacs -version reports 24.5.1. The Cygwin installer subsequently
reports 24.5-2.
This is a common source of confusion. The ".1" in "24.5.1" has nothing
to do with the Cygwin release number "-2". (It's actually a build
counter and should just be ignored.)
Ken
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